Around 100 million workers are employed in China’s manufacturing industry, with data from the National Bureau of Statistics showing manufacturing accounted for about 30 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product in the first three quarters of 2018. Photo: AP

Around 100 million workers are employed in China’s manufacturing industry, with data from the National Bureau of Statistics showing manufacturing accounted for about 30 per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product in the first three quarters of 2018. Photo: AP

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Chinese internet-based service companies, which served as the employment backstop in the last economic down, have themselves fallen on hard times, only adding fuel to rising lay-off worries. Illustration: Brian Wang

Chinese internet-based service companies, which served as the employment backstop in the last economic down, have themselves fallen on hard times, only adding fuel to rising lay-off worries. Illustration: Brian Wang